Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Friday at 5 PM Pacific

August 31st 2012:Hanne Blank on Radical Acceptance of Bodies, the History of the Hymen, and the Invention of Straight People

Author and scholar Hanne Blank joins Tristan for a discussion of her work on the history of both heterosexuality and virginity. We'll discuss the 20th century invention of the concept of "straight" and why everything you think you know about virginity is wrong. Blank is also the author of Big Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them), updated, illustrated, and re-released in 2011, so we'll discuss radical acceptance of bodies and how it relates to bettering all of our sex and relationships.

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Hanne Blank

Hanne Blank spends her time thinking, learning, writing, and speaking at the crossroads of bodies, self, and culture. Joyfully spanning the town/gown divide as well as the mind/body split, her books include the histories Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Beacon Press, 2012) and Virgin: The Untouched History (Bloomsbury, 2007), the cult classic sex and body-acceptance book Big Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them) (Celestial Arts, 2011), and numerous others. A former Scholar of the Institute for Teaching and Research on Women at Towson University, Hanne is a popular speaker and guest lecturer on topics from the history